Nym

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About Open Source:

Open Source
software is licensed so you can download and use the software free-of-charge. The source code for this software is made available free-of-charge, you (or a programmer you hire) can make changes to this software to better meet your needs, and you can release your changed code back to the community passing the benefit on to other users.

In a simplified view we can classify an Open source license in two different categories:

Generic free: (Do Anything). These licenses do not restrict any code usage. Therefore the code of the
project can be included in proprietary programs. Examples of these licenses include MIT, BSD, XWindow.

GNU GPL: (What is Free Remain Free). No proprietary software can use part of the code released with this license.

In other words, if you accept the possibility that companies could embed your software in their releases you can
chose a generic free license while if you want to prevent this behavior a GPL license is more appropriate.

I usually release my code under BSD License, while in the past I was more GPL oriented.

Developer Information

About Francesco:

Something about me:

My name is Francesco, I'm a computer scientist researcher and during 1999-2000 I started my adventure in Open Source.
If you are a member of the Open Source community you may know me as
Nym or Dr.Zero. When I begin my OS activity having a public name
in Internet was not that common. I originally was a strong GPL
supporter but now I am more BSD-Oriented.
Recently I start publishing some articles in scientific conferences about Open Source.